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Joanna.

1 According to Luke 8:3, the wife of Chuza, Herod’s (i.e., Herod Antipas) steward, and one of the women who accompanied Jesus. Along with Mary Magdalene, Susanna, and others who ‘had been healed of evil spirits and infirmities,’ Joanna gave assistance (‘out of their means’) to Jesus and the Twelve. In Luke 24:10, she is one of the women (with Mary Magdalene, Mary the mother of James, and others) who, having gone to anoint Jesus’ body, find the tomb empty.

2 One of the ancestors of Jesus in Luke 3:27 (kjv; rsv: ‘Joanan’).